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The Crescent City Connection and the New Orleans skyline. The Crescent City Connection (CCC), formerly the Greater New Orleans (GNO) Bridge, is a pair of cantilever bridges that carry U.S. Highway 90 Business (US 90 Bus.) over the Mississippi River in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. They are tied as the fifth-longest cantilever bridges ...
The United States, which had acquired possession from France in 1803, adopted the French name and anglicized it to New Orleans. New Orleans has several nicknames, including these: Crescent City, alluding to the course of the Lower Mississippi River around and through the city. [36]
The Battle of Liberty Place, or Battle of Canal Street, was an attempted insurrection by the Crescent City White League against the Reconstruction Era Louisiana Republican state government on September 14, 1874, in New Orleans, which was the capital of Louisiana at the time.
The ongoing vitalization of the Crescent City’s music culture really is like something out of a horn salesman’s fever dream, with younger generations readily taking up New Orleans ...
New Orleans natives may be slightly disappointed to find that a movie titled “Crescent City” — long a popular nickname for the storied Louisiana metropolis — actually is set in and around ...
"Crescent City", a song about New Orleans by Lucinda Williams from her 1988 self-titled album Crescent City Radio , an Internet radio station based in New Orleans, Louisiana Crescent City , a hyper-opera by composer Anne LeBaron , premiered in Los Angeles 2012
Lost Wages/Sin City/Dice Town/Gambling Town Las Vegas, Nevada. Mardi Gras/Crescent City New Orleans, Louisiana. Mickey Mouse Orlando, Florida (a reference to Walt Disney World resort). Mile High Denver, Colorado (now widely used among the general public as "The Mile High City"). Monkey Town
City nicknames can help establish a civic identity, help outsiders recognize a community, attract people to a community because of its nickname, promote civic pride, and build community unity. [1] Nicknames and slogans that successfully create a new community "ideology or myth" [2] are also believed to have economic value. [1]